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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
elearning technology have provided the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can we
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Somalia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
need
to better understand
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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