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 is a
edited collection
which
addresses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
developments in
online education technology have provided the means for
learners
all over the world
to take online classes.
These massive open courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
available there is a
desire
to grasp how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Students want
to better understand how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
need for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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