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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
distance learning technology have empowered
learners
all over the world
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
elearning technology institutions
must deal with
today because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
want
to better comprehend
these
new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To meet this
demand for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This authoritative new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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