MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
changes in
e-learning are providing the means for
students
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can students
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Cook Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Students want
to understand how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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