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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
gains in
digital education technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to comprehend how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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