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 the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
developments in
online education have provided the means for
students
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Congo, (Congo  – Brazzaville) to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Professors want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
demand for
details
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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