MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
online education enable
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are struggling with
more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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