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.
Find out more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
related to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
learning technology are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOC classes?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
undertakings.
Universities want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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