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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can we
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Professors want
to comprehend how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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