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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advances in
e-learning are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
These massive open courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning technology institutions
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Navassa Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
details
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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