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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online learning have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online education organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
details
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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