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 this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
online education technology are enabling
students
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning technology organizations
are considering
now that online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Croatia to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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