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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
online education technology enable
students
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC classes are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
France to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
demand for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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