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 the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
technology-enhanced learning enable
people
all over the world
to be participants in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
must deal with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
undertakings.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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