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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
distance learning have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
these
important new open education
ventures.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
details
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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