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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
online education have provided the means for
students
all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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