MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
online learning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
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
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
desire for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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