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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
expanding
need for
knowledge
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This exciting new book
also investigates the
key 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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