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 this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
evolvements in
e-learning have provided the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can participants
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Senegal to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
these
interesting new open education
initiatives.
Scientists want
to know how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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