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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
blended learning technology have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Australia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
desideratum for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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