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 this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to take part in online classes.
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.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Johnston Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open education
initiatives.
Everyone wants
to know how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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