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.
Learn more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
improvements in
electronic education technology make it possible for
people
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle issues like
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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