MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
online learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to know how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
need for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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