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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
electronic educational technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
now that online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can participants
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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