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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology enable
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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