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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
explores
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
evolvements in
e-learning enable
learners
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These massive open courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC classes?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to grasp how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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