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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
online education have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These MOOCs are
free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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