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 the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
elearning technology make it possible for
students
all over the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
are considering
now that elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
undertakings.
Academics want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
need for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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