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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
desire
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This inspiring new book
also describes the
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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