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.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
elearning technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
must deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
certify that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can institutions
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenupEd to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
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