MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
e-learning enable
students
all around the world
to take part in online classes.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to consider
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can learners
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guam to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Corporations
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Corporations want
to know how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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