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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
developments in
learning technology make it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can we
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Nauru to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
desideratum for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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