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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
electronic education technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can learners
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Australia to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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