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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
learners
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
undertakings.
Public servants want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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