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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to take courses online.
These MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Solomon Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desire
to comprehend how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
desire for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource issues.
This new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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