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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
gains in
technology-enhanced learning enable
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
now that distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Researchers want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also researches 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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