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.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
gains in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to consider
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Rice University to conduct these MOOCs?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Corporations want
to better understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|
