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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
online education technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
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
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This authoritative new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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