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
deals with
topics
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
e-learning have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
MOOCs are
usually free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
need
to better understand
these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Researchers want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
desideratum for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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