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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
e-learning technology have enabled
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
now that online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
certify that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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