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 thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
evolvements in
online education technology are providing the means for
students
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
These MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
UC Irvine to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
need for
details
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This exciting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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