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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
gains in
elearning are empowering
learners
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
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.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to deal with
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
need for
information
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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