MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
elearning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can we
assure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Trainers want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This thrilling new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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