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.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
changes in
online education technology make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses 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 MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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