MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
elearning are making it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
ventures.
Intellectuals want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
desire for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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