MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better comprehend
these
open educational
ventures.
Universities want
to perceive how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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