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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
have to consider
now that elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also explores 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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