MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
gains in
online education technology have enabled
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in online classes.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
important new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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