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.
Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
learners
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
subjects that
blended learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
desire for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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