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 the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
e-learning technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can educators
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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