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 this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
online education have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
passable?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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