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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
advances in
e-learning technology have provided the means for
students
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
ventures.
Teachers want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
need for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This sensational new book
also reviews the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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