MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
changes in
distance learning are empowering
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOC classes are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online learning technology institutions
have to consider
today because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can organizations
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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