MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advancements in
digital education technology are making it possible for
learners
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to grasp how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
these
important new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
In response to this
need for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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