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 Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
online learning technology have empowered
humans
all around the world
to take courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
elearning organizations
are struggling with
today because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
adequate?
How can we
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
need
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Academics want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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