MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 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 Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
changes in
e-learning technology enable
humans
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
distance learning organizations
have to consider
now that e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open educational
undertakings.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
most important 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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