MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
need
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
important new open educational
initiatives.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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