MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to participate in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
must deal with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Germany to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
need for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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