MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
online education have enabled
students
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can participants
be assured that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This exciting new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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