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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
online education technology are empowering
learners
all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning organizations
are dealing with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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