MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
learning technology are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online education institutions
have to consider
now that online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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