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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
The latest
developments in
distance learning technology are enabling
learners
all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
have to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Paraguay to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects.
This dramatic new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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