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 the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
elearning are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC classes are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
are dealing with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can we
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
open education
endeavours.
Professors want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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