MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
researches
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
evolvements in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
learners
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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