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 the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
advances in
online education technology have provided the means for
students
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
These massive open courses are
free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can teachers
certify that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Venezuela to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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