MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
learning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can learners
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational topics.
This amazing new book
also describes the
key 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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