MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
articulates
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
advances in
online education technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take classes online.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
today because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
necessity
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
demand for
data
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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