MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Oman to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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