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 engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
e-learning are enabling
people
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
have to consider
today because blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
need for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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