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 this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
online education technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
need for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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