MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
explores
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
improvements in
technology-enhanced learning have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
need
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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