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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
blended learning are enabling
students
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massively open online courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can we
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
facts
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This exciting new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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