MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
online education are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can participants
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs?
How can institutions
handle issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
data
the exciting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This definitive new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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