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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
distance learning have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
These massive open online courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
make sure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational topics.
This gripping new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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