MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
online education have made it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
need
to understand
these
intriguing new open education
endeavours.
Scholars want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
desire for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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