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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
changes in
elearning technology make it possible for
people
all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
have to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Paraguay to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to perceive how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
need for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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