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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
blended learning technology make it possible for
students
all around the world
to take online classes.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This amazing new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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