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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to grasp how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources.
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