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 the fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
e-learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Czech Republic to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
promising new open educational
undertakings.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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