MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
electronic educational technology have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
certify that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
demand
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open education
endeavours.
Teachers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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