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.
Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education have made it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can organizations
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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