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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
online learning are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to perceive how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
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