MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
elearning are providing the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because blended learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can participants
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
handle problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
need
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
desire for
knowledge
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This interesting new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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