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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
learning technology are enabling
people
in nations all aver the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
details
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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