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 the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
electronic educational technology make it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
compelling new open education
undertakings.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
desire for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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