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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
online education technology are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open education
initiatives.
Scientists want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
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