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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
changes in
e-learning enable
people
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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