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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
online education have enabled
people
in nations all aver the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education organizations
are considering
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can organizations
be assured that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
open education
experiments.
Universities want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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