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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education have enabled
people
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
exciting new open education
initiatives.
People want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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