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 illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
analyzes
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
e-learning technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to deal with
today because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can participants
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Instructors want
to perceive how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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