MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
e-learning technology have made it possible for
learners
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
need
to understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
People want
to comprehend how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
facts
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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