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 this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
improvements in
blended learning are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can students
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Germany to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
new open educational
ventures.
Students want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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