MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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
considers
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
evolvements in
online education have provided the means for
students
all over the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
blended learning institutions
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of Houston System to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
prolific there is a
desire
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also describes the
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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