MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
online education have enabled
people
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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