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 this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advancements in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
humans
all around the world
to participate in courses online.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are dealing with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can we
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desire for
information
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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