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.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
studies
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online learning technology have enabled
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
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 online MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
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