MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
e-learning have made it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can organizations
make sure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Russia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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