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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
issues
related to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
blended learning technology are enabling
people
all over the world
to participate in online courses.
These massive open courses are
normally free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to consider
today because distance learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
France to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
need for
data
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This authoritative new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources.
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