MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
These MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wellesley College to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Academics want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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