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.
Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
must deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Chad to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This sensational new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources.
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