MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
students
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
ventures.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
demand for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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