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 the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
researches
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Modern
developments in
online education technology have enabled
humans
all over the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
e-learning organizations
must deal with
now that online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle problems like
poor
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
need for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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