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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
growing
need for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This intriguing new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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