MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online education have made it possible for
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
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 online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
these
new open education
ventures.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
demand for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This exciting new book
also deals with the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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