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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
developments in
online education technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
abundant there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Scholars want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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