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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
elearning have enabled
students
all around the world
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
now that blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can participants
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Somalia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better perceive
these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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