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.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology have made it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take part in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Italy to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
endeavours.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
need for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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