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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
technology-enhanced learning are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning organizations
are struggling with
today because distance learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
need for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This authoritative new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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