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.
Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
improvements in
e-learning are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
ventures.
Students want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
increasing
need for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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