MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 – Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
online education have made it possible for
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
have to deal with
today because blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
make sure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can teachers
manage
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This thrilling new book
also studies the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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