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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
ventures.
Educators want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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