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 this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
online education have enabled
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Grenada to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
handle
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to know how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
need for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This inspiring new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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