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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that blended learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Gabon to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
need
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Scholars want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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