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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
online education are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOC classes are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to consider
today because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
initiatives.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This exciting new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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