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 the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
developments in
e-learning are enabling
people
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are having to consider
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
need
to be aware of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
want
to better perceive
these
important new open educational
initiatives.
Teachers want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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