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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
distance learning are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This exciting new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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