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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
electronic educational technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online courses.
These massive online courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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