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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
electronic educational technology enable
people
in nations all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
now that learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can institutions
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
participants
desire
to gain a better understanding of
these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
need for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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