MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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
which
researches
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
online learning technology have empowered
people
all around the world
to be participants in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Gibraltar to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This stimulating new book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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