MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
online education technology are enabling
learners
all over the world
to take online courses.
These massive open courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor.
There are numerous
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Djibouti to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage problems like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
new open education
endeavours.
Public servants want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
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