MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
elearning are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
now that learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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