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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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