MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
advances in
electronic educational technology have enabled
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
China, People's Republic of to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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