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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
online education technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to take 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 MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
initiatives.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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