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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
studies
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
online learning have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scholars
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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