MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
digital education technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take online courses.
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.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
demand for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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