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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
online education technology are providing the means for
students
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
initiatives.
Teachers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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