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
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
distance learning technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Educators want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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