MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This gripping new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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