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 the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
distance learning technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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