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 the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
e-learning are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
new open education
experiments.
Students want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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