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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advancements in
online learning have empowered
learners
all around the world
to take classes online.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
need for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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