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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
learning technology are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are
normally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Maldives to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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