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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
issues
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
distance learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
manage
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better grasp
these
interesting new open education
undertakings.
Lecturers want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
need for
facts
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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