MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take part in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
undertakings.
Universities want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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