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 the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
online education are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants 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.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning organizations
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Indonesia to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
demand for
details
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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