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 this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online learning technology are enabling
humans
all around the world
to take online classes.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are several
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
fascinating new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources.
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