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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advancements in
online learning technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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