MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
evolvements in
online learning are providing the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to take online courses.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
are dealing with
more than ever because distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
need for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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