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 Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
changes in
online education technology make it possible for
students
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology institutions
are considering
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Ross Dependency to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This stimulating new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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