MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
electronic educational technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Peninsula College to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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