MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
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
describes
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education technology have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Netherlands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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