MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
elearning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
need for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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