MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
describes
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
e-learning are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online learning institutions
have to deal with
now that learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to be aware of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This exciting new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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