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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
studies
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
elearning have made it possible for
humans
in nations all around the world
to participate in online classes.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
elearning institutions
are considering
today because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can we
ensure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This dramatic new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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