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 the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
reviews
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
changes in
blended learning are providing the means for
learners
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
These massive open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
blended learning institutions
have to consider
today because e-learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Burkina Faso to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
information
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This thrilling new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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