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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
studies
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education organizations
are having to consider
today because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can we
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Teachers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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