MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online education institutions
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
make sure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Angola to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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