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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
learning technology enable
humans
all over the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
must deal with
today because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
need for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This sensational new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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