MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
investigates
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can educators
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desire for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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