MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
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
that
analyzes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
e-learning technology enable
students
in nations all aver the world
to take courses online.
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.
These massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
fascinating new open educational
initiatives.
Everyone wants
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
desire for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
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