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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
elearning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to consider
more than ever because blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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