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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
electronic education technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Saint Helena to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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