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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advances in
online learning have enabled
people
all around the world
to take courses online.
These MOOCs are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
certify that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Austria to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
open education
initiatives.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This inspiring new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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