MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
digital education technology have made it possible for
humans
all around the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education organizations
have to consider
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
all right?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Ireland to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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