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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
learning technology are providing the means for
students
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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