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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology are empowering
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These MOOC classes are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open educational
undertakings.
Trainers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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