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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
electronic educational technology have empowered
people
all over the world
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.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desire for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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