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.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
topics
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
electronic educational technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Finland to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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