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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
e-learning technology have empowered
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can institutions
ensure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Mali to conduct these MOOC classes?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education topics.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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