MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
articulates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
online education are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can participants
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Korea, North to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
need
to understand
these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also explores the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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