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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
analyzes
topics
regarding open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
advances in
distance learning have empowered
people
all over the world
to participate in courses online.
These massive open courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to consider
today because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can participants
assure that
the education provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
demand
to grasp how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
these
promising new open education
endeavours.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
need for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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