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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
e-learning have enabled
learners
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning organizations
are dealing with
today because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
need for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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