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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
changes in
digital education technology have enabled
humans
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Slovakia to conduct these MOOCs?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
desire for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
most important 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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