MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
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
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education enable
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can students
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources.
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