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 the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
online education enable
people
in every nation on earth
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.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can participants
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
necessity
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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