MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
e-learning technology have empowered
students
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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