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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
online education are empowering
learners
in nations all aver the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Baker Island to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
necessity
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
need for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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