MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
advances in
online education technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning institutions
are struggling with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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