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 the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
investigates
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
blended learning enable
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are struggling with
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
want
to better perceive
these
significant new open education
initiatives.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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