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
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
digital education technology are enabling
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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