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 the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online learning have provided the means for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desire for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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