MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
e-learning technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in classes online.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
open education
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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