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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
researches
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advances in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses 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 MOOCs are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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