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.
Learn more about the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
blended learning organizations
are struggling with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to perceive how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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