MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
digital education technology are empowering
students
in nations all around the world
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can educators
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
facts
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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