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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
online education technology are enabling
people
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Researchers want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This inspiring new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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