MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can participants
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
need for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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