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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online education have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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