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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
changes in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
One Month to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
open education
endeavours.
Professors want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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