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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
learning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes online.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to comprehend how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources.
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