MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
online education have made it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in classes online.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning technology institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Germany to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
necessity
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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