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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
distance learning technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take courses online.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Svalbard to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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