MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
elearning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
typically free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because blended learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Grenada to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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