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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
elearning have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are
generally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain more knowledge about
these
new open education
endeavours.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
crescive
desire for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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