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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
elearning enable
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Saint Martin to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to be aware of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This intriguing new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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