MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education technology have made it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Romania to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desire
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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