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.
Find out more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
changes in
elearning technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to consider
more than ever because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This exciting new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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