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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
investigates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
elearning are providing the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can participants
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This definitive new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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