MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
electronic education technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Armenia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Professors
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
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