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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
changes in
distance learning have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes online.
MOOCs are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UWashingtonX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
demand for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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