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 the exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
studies
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online learning are enabling
people
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These MOOCs are
free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can learners
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs?
How can teachers
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
need
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open education
initiatives.
Scientists want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
need for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
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