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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online education organizations
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Albania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
demand for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also addresses 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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