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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
issues
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses online.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can we
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
these
significant new open education
ventures.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects.
This authoritative new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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