MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can institutions
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
necessity
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to know how
massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
need for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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