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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
e-learning technology have empowered
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning technology institutions
are considering
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
People want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
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