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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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