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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education are providing the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to understand
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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