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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
online education technology have made it possible for
humans
all over the world
to participate 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.
These massive online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning organizations
have to consider
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Svalbard to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
demand
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Corporations want
to grasp how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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