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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
evolvements in
e-learning technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
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.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canada to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
Everyone wants
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
desideratum for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education topics.
This book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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