MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
describes
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
online learning technology have enabled
students
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
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.
MOOC classes are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Maldives to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
get a handle on
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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