MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
online education technology enable
students
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
these
open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
need for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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