MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
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 is a
book
that
explores
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online learning are empowering
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
desire
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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