MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
issues
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
learning technology are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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