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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
digital education technology have provided the means for
students
all over the world
to take classes online.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can educators
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
ventures.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education topics.
This sensational new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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