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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
people
in nations all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
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
Puerto Rico to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
want
to understand
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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