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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
learning technology are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
are having to consider
today because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can learners
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Davidson College to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
compelling new open educational
endeavours.
Educators want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
need for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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