MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
digital education technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
must deal with
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can participants
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desire for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education issues.
This new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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