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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
gains in
blended learning technology are enabling
humans
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
demand for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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