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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
elearning have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses online.
These MOOCs are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
online education organizations
are struggling with
now that online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses?
How can stakeholders
manage issues like
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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