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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
elearning technology have empowered
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
must deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Utah State University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
compelling new open educational
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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