MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
distance learning have enabled
learners
all around the world
to take courses online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning institutions
have to struggle with
today because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Venezuela to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to grasp how
these MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To handle this
demand for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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