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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
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.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so swiftly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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