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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
digital education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in online classes.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
certify that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Researchers want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
demand for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational topics.
This sensational new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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