MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
analyzes
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online education are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
need for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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