MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
online learning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to take online classes.
These MOOC courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Micronesia to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Scientists want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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