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 this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
online learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
learning technology institutions
have to consider
now that online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can we
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wellesley College to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
desideratum for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational issues.
This thrilling new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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