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 the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
elearning have provided the means for
students
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning institutions
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can participants
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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