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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
investigates
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education technology are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Meetup to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This dramatic new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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