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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in online courses.
These MOOCs are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Kirkwood Community College to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Educators want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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