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 dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
e-learning have provided the means for
humans
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can we
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
The University of Chicago to conduct these massive open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
manage problems like
inadequate
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to grasp how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scientists
and many other
participants
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
initiatives.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
need for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources.
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