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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
online education technology are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Abkhazia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This dramatic new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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