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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
learning technology are enabling
people
in nations all aver the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Australia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
demand for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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