MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
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 massive open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better comprehend
these
significant new open educational
ventures.
Everybody wants
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
need for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This stimulating new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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