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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
developments in
electronic education technology have enabled
learners
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC classes are
mostly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
now that blended learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
openHPI to conduct these MOOCs?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
participants
want
to better understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
details
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This interesting new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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