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 exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
e-learning have made it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education organizations
have to consider
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
McHenry County College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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