MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
demand for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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