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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
all right?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
undertakings.
Corporations want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational topics.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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