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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
elearning have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These massive open courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
have to consider
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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