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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
electronic education technology are empowering
students
all around the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
must deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Meetup to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
need
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
initiatives.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This gripping new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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