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.
Find out more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
electronic education technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
be assured that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
details
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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