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 this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
talks about
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
electronic educational technology enable
learners
all over the world
to take part in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning organizations
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sierra Leone to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
undertakings.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desire for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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