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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
elearning technology institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
desire
to be aware of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
undertakings.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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