MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
e-learning have empowered
people
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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