MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
digital education technology have enabled
students
all over the world
to take classes online.
These massive open online courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Kirkwood Community College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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