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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
distance learning technology make it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These massive open courses are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
need for
details
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also articulates the
key 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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