MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
online education technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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