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 this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
e-learning have empowered
students
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
e-learning organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Academics want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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