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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
digital education technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Spain to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
fascinating new open education
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
desire for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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