MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
articulates
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education technology are providing the means for
learners
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
certify that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
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