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 breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
deals with
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
changes in
electronic education technology have enabled
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
e-learning institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because elearning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
get a handle on
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and numerous other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
significant new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
need for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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