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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
humans
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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