MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
distance learning technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach 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
Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
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