MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online education are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take 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.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
certify that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
demand for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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