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.
Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
online education have empowered
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
elearning institutions
are struggling with
today because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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