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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
explores
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
changes in
elearning have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
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 massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online learning institutions
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can participants
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to be aware of how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
want
to better perceive
these
new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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