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.
Find out more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
online learning enable
students
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
must deal with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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