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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
explores
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
electronic educational technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
need for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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