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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
online education technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This sensational new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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