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 exceptional new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
investigates
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
online learning technology enable
people
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
have to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can organizations
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desire for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This thrilling new book
also studies the
key 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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