MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
electronic educational technology are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to take part in classes online.
These MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
endeavours.
People want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
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