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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
examines
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These massive open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Russia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
need
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
demand for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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