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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online learning have enabled
learners
all over the world
to take part in classes online.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
certify that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can we
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can stakeholders
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to be more aware of
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desire for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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