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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
elearning enable
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology institutions
have to deal with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
growing
desideratum for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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