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 the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advancements in
digital education technology have enabled
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOC courses are
free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can institutions
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Pakistan to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
demand for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
major 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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