MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
Recent
developments in
blended learning are enabling
students
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences.
There are a lot of
issues that
learning technology organizations
must deal with
today because learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
these
promising new open education
experiments.
People want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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