MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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 is a
edited collection
that
researches
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
e-learning are providing the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in 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.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
French Polynesia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
intriguing new open education
undertakings.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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