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 this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology have enabled
students
all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can participants
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business models are being used by
institutions like
UC Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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