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 Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
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 online MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can participants
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Iran to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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