MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
blended learning technology have made it possible for
humans
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can learners
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
details
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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