MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes online.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Professors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This inspiring new book
also studies the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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