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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
online education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Australia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
these
significant new open education
ventures.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
need for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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