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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
electronic education technology have enabled
learners
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online education institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Otis College of Art and Design to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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