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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
These MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
important new open education
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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