MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
online learning have empowered
learners
in nations all around the world
to take online courses.
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.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This inspiring new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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