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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
online education technology enable
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Twitter to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
details
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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