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 compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
electronic education technology have enabled
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
today because learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
need
to better understand
these
important new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to grasp how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
developing
demand for
facts
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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