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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
reviews
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
e-learning technology are empowering
learners
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology institutions
are struggling with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
make sure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Pitcairn Islands to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
these
open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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