MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
improvements in
e-learning technology are empowering
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning institutions
have to deal with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
necessity
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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