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.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
e-learning have provided the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to take online classes.
Massively open online courses are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning technology institutions
have to deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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