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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
changes in
elearning technology are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Washington to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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