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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are considering
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can educators
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Grenada to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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