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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
distance learning technology are enabling
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online education institutions
are having to consider
today because learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can learners
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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