MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
issues
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advancements in
blended learning technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
need
to be aware of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
information
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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