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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
investigates
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
online education technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
learning technology institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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