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.
Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
online education technology are enabling
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
make sure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Bowling Green State University to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
People want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
desire for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This exciting new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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