MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
electronic education technology have enabled
humans
in nations all around the world
to take classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This intriguing new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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