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.
Learn more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
blended learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education institutions
have to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Udemy to conduct these MOOCs?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to know how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
need for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This stimulating new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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