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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education technology are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Utah to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
need
to better perceive
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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