MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
e-learning are making it possible for
learners
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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