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 this authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
elearning technology are empowering
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes 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.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning organizations
are considering
now that e-learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can organizations
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Mongolia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to understand how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
need for
information
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also articulates the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER).
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