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 cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
students
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Austria to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
compelling new open education
initiatives.
Teachers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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