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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
investigates
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Denmark to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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