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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Modern
changes in
elearning enable
students
all over the world
to take online courses.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
ventures.
Researchers want
to know how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
crescive
demand for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also investigates the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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