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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
online education are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can organizations
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Indonesia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
need for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This sensational new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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