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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
demand for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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