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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
researches
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These massive online courses are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
now that online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
need for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This intriguing new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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