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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
online education have empowered
learners
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
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.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are many
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can participants
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
manage issues like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better grasp
these
compelling new open education
undertakings.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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