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 this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
e-learning are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Isle of Man to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
necessity
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
need for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also explores the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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