MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
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 is a
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online learning technology are enabling
humans
all over the world
to take courses online.
These MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
desideratum
to be aware of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
expanding
need for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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