MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
changes in
e-learning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses online.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning institutions
are struggling with
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can we
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
South Africa to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To handle this
demand for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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