MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
electronic educational technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Queen Maud Land to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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