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 Around the World is a
book
which
describes
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
electronic educational technology have empowered
people
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
demand
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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