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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
online education technology are making it possible for
students
all around the world
to take courses online.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
all right?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
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