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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
investigates
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
improvements in
online education technology have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology organizations
must deal with
now that online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Sweden to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
manage
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This amazing new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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