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 edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
improvements in
elearning have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These MOOC classes are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning institutions
must deal with
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
certify that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
demand
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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