MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can we
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desire for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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