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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
e-learning technology have enabled
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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