MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
addresses
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
e-learning enable
students
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOC courses are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
important new open educational
ventures.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
demand for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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