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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
online education technology are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
undertakings.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This dramatic new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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