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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
elearning technology are enabling
learners
all over the world
to take online courses.
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.
These massive open courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to deal with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
certify that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to comprehend how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
desire for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
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