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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
online education technology are empowering
students
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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