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 exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
electronic education technology are enabling
humans
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to be aware of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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