MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
e-learning technology have enabled
humans
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
are considering
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This inspiring new book
also researches the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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