MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
researches
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
developments in
online education technology have enabled
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
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 MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology organizations
have to consider
today because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
demand
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
exciting new open education
undertakings.
Educators want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational topics.
This gripping new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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