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 this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
distance learning have empowered
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
usually free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
need
to better grasp
these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
need for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This definitive new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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