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 fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
humans
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Saint Martin to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
important new open education
experiments.
Everyone wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
facts
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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