MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
gains in
blended learning technology enable
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
British Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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