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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
developments in
elearning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
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.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning technology institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
endeavours.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
need for
details
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This intriguing new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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