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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
distance learning have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes online.
These MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
elearning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Otis College of Art and Design to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As elearning becomes more
widespread there is a
desire
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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