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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
online education technology have empowered
learners
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can participants
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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