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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advancements in
learning technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are struggling with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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