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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
improvements in
e-learning enable
people
all over the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
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 MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning organizations
must deal with
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Reddit to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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