MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
e-learning have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can participants
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified 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
Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
significant new open education
undertakings.
Universities want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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