MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge 2015.
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
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
elearning have enabled
students
all around the world
to take online classes.
These online MOOC courses are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to struggle with
today because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
make sure that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Monaco to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
endeavours.
Public servants want
to better understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
demand for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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