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.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
online education have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning institutions
have to deal with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
need for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This gripping new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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