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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
online learning technology enable
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can participants
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
low
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desire for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
most important 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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