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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
changes in
e-learning have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to consider
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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