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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
These online MOOCs are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
distance learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Midway Islands to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
need
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
need
to understand
these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Everyone wants
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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