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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are having to consider
today because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Guadeloupe to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Professors want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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