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 this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online learning technology have provided the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can institutions
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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