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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
regarding open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
blended learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Cuba to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Scientists want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
growing
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This amazing new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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