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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
developments in
online education technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take part in classes online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These MOOCs are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can students
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open education
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
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