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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to consider
today because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This thrilling new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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