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.
Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
for students 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 variety of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
undertakings.
Intellectuals want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
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