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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
elearning technology have enabled
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
good?
How can students
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Guam to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As digital elearning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
initiatives.
Academics want
to perceive how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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