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 this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
changes in
blended learning technology make it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to grasp how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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