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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
digital education technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Martinique to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
initiatives.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
demand for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This definitive new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
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