MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
distance learning technology have enabled
humans
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As online learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education issues.
This definitive new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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