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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
online learning have empowered
humans
all around the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
distance learning institutions
have to deal with
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
France to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can educators
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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