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.
Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
talks about
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning institutions
are struggling with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
manage issues like
low
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desire for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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