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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
online learning technology have enabled
students
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can we
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Argentina to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
open education
experiments.
People want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
need for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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