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 is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
distance learning have empowered
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are struggling with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can educators
ensure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
widespread there is a
necessity
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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