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 this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
e-learning are enabling
people
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
most important 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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