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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
online education are enabling
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to consider
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can participants
certify that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Iran to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This exciting new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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