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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
learning technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Aruba to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open educational
ventures.
Scholars want
to perceive how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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