MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
distance learning have empowered
people
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
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 online MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can institutions
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to be aware of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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