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 educative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic educational technology have enabled
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These MOOCs are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning institutions
are struggling with
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Costa Rica to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
important new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource topics.
This thrilling new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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