MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
online education technology enable
students
all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also discusses 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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