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 the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
changes in
blended learning technology make it possible for
learners
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
normally free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
these
compelling new open educational
undertakings.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This interesting new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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