MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
gains in
distance learning technology are providing the means for
students
all over the world
to participate in online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can organizations
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
important new open education
endeavours.
Educators want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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