MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
topics
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
changes in
elearning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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