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.
Find out more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning enable
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
How can we
make sure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guadeloupe to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
People want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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