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 this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
deals with
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
blended learning are making it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can participants
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
China, People's Republic of to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
desire for
information
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education issues.
This interesting new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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