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 engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
distance learning technology enable
students
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
details
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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