MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
improvements in
e-learning have made it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
undertakings.
Everyone wants
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
need for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This definitive new book
also explores the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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