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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can we
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
San Diego County Office of Education to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Students want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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