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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
humans
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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