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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to deal with
today because blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desire for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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