MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
distance learning have enabled
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can participants
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This sensational new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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