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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
studies
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
online education have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to struggle with
now that elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can learners
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
important new open educational
ventures.
Public servants want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This inspiring new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
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