MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This exciting new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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