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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
changes in
learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education organizations
have to deal with
more than ever because online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Colombia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Academics want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
data
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also articulates the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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