MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
electronic educational technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning organizations
have to struggle with
now that online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can participants
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
United States to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
want
to be more aware of
these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Intellectuals want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
desideratum for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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