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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
gains in
distance learning technology have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
want
to understand
these
fascinating new open education
ventures.
Scholars want
to better understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
growing
demand for
facts
the authoritative new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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