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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
technology-enhanced learning are enabling
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOC classes are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can teachers
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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