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 is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
e-learning enable
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOC courses are
free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online education organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
desire
to be aware of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
ventures.
Academics want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
demand for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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