MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education technology are enabling
learners
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning organizations
must deal with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
demand for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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