MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
technology-enhanced learning have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these MOOCs?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
these
exciting new open educational
endeavours.
Universities want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
growing
desideratum for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also discusses 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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