MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
students
all around the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOC classes are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
get a handle on
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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