MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
developments in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Mongolia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Corporations want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desire for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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