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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Faroe Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
need for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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