MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
considers
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
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
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open education
initiatives.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
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