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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
developments in
elearning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
MOOC courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can learners
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
manage issues like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desire for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
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