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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
technology-enhanced learning enable
humans
all over the world
to be participants in 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 massive online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online learning technology institutions
must deal with
today because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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