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.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
talks about
issues
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
online education technology enable
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
blended learning institutions
are having to attend to
today because blended learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Ghana to conduct these MOOCs?
How can we
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Instructors want
to understand how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education resource topics.
This gripping new book
also addresses the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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