MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
e-learning enable
people
all around the world
to take classes online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
certify that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Virginia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
important new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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