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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
elearning enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Mauritania to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Universities
and many other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To handle this
demand for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education issues.
This inspiring new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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