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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
topics
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
online learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are considering
more than ever because learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can students
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Peter I Island to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
would like
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Everybody wants
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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