MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massive open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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