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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
distance learning make it possible for
humans
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
elearning organizations
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desire for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
|