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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
distance learning have enabled
learners
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
e-learning institutions
must deal with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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