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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
studies
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOCs are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
now that online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
make sure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Intellectuals want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
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