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.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
blended learning technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
these
open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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