MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
online education make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
demand for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This gripping new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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