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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
learning technology have empowered
learners
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Florida to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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