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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advancements in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education organizations
are dealing with
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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