MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
investigates
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online learning technology enable
people
all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
North Seattle Community College to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
these
fascinating new open educational
ventures.
Universities want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This definitive new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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