MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
elearning technology have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
ensure that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
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 business models are being used by
organizations like
Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
demand for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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