MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
online education have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning institutions
are having to consider
today because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Bulgaria to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
need for
details
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This exciting new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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