MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
electronic education technology are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are struggling with
today because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
need for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This inspiring new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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