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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also explores the
major 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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