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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
learners
all over the world
to take online classes.
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
generally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can educators
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources.
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