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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
online education have made it possible for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
assure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
demand for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|
