MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
researches
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
online education technology have empowered
humans
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning institutions
have to consider
now that learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Tumblr to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also researches the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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