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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
blended learning are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
People want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
need for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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