MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
online education enable
people
all over the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Ethiopia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
demand
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
demand for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This intriguing new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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