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
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
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 massive open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
good?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
UCSF to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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