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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online learning are empowering
humans
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
These MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
initiatives.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This sensational new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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