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 the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
online learning enable
humans
all around the world
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Spain to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open educational
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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