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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
evolvements in
distance learning have made it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
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.
These MOOCs are
free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to comprehend how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to perceive how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
details
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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