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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to consider
today because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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