MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning have provided the means for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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