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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
changes in
digital education technology make it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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