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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
learning technology enable
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This intriguing new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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