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 this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
elearning technology have made it possible for
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
learning technology institutions
have to consider
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Uganda to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This stimulating new book
also researches the
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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