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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
e-learning technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to take classes online.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
MOOC classes are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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