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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
developments in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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