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 is a
book
that
talks about
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
e-learning are enabling
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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