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 the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
evolvements in
distance learning technology make it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to consider
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Armenia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to perceive how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
Everyone wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
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