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 this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
distance learning enable
learners
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to deal with
today because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to perceive how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
demand for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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