MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
changes in
technology-enhanced learning enable
people
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Utah State University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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