MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
ventures.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
most important 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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