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 engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
issues
having to do with open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
changes in
online education are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses online.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
today because blended learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
manage
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better grasp
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
expanding
need for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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