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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
online learning are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
make sure that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
need for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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