MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
digital education technology are making it possible for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
ventures.
Corporations want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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