MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
digital education technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
need for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This amazing new book
also deals with 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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