MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
developments in
electronic educational technology are empowering
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to consider
now that online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Spain to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
undertakings.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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