MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
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
investigates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advancements in
online education technology have enabled
people
in nations all aver the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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