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 the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
blended learning are enabling
learners
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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