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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
developments in
online learning technology enable
humans
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As online learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources.
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