MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
advancements in
elearning are empowering
people
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology institutions
are dealing with
now that online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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