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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
online learning technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to consider
today because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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