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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
distance learning technology make it possible for
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Trainers want
to comprehend how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
growing
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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