MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities

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Synopsis

With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveraging these flexible systems to educate, train, and empower populations previously denied access to such opportunities.
Featuring contributors leading efforts in rapidly changing nations and regions, this wide-ranging collection grapples with accreditation, credentialing, quality standards, innovative assessment, learner motivation and attrition, and numerous other issues. The provocative narratives curated in this volume demonstrate how MOOCs and OER can be effectively designed and implemented in vastly different ways in particular settings, as detailed by experts from Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific/Oceania, and the Caribbean.　
This comprehensive text is an essential resource for policy makers, instructional designers, practitioners, administrators, and other MOOC and OER community stakeholders.

Book details

Author:
Ke Zhang, Curtis J. Bonk, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds
ISBN:
9780429677540
Related ISBNs:
9780429398919, 9780367025762, 9780367025762, 9780367025779, 9780367025779, 9780429398919, 9780367025762, 9780367025762, 9780367025779, 9780367025779, 9780367025762, 9780429398919, 9780367025779
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
392
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-11-25
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Computers and Internet, Education, Nonfiction, Technology