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 the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education technology make it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to perceive how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to understand how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
facts
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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