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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
online learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning organizations
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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