MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
digital education technology enable
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can educators
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Tunisia to conduct these MOOC classes?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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