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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
analyzes
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
elearning have enabled
humans
all over the world
to take classes online.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can we
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
need
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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