MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
online education have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning institutions
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
desire for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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