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 is a
book
which
analyzes
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
digital education technology have empowered
people
all over the world
to take online courses.
These MOOC courses are
normally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
make sure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Cape Verde to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This gripping new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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