MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
analyzes
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
students
all over the world
to take courses online.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning institutions
must deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Somaliland to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
ventures.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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