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 Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
blended learning technology are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
open educational
ventures.
Public servants want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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