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 the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
online learning technology are empowering
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
elearning technology organizations
are having to deal with
today because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
desideratum
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Intellectuals want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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