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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
learning technology organizations
are having to consider
today because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Virginia to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can educators
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To meet this
expanding
demand for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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