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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
online education technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants 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.
These MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
need
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
developing
desire for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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