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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
online education are enabling
people
all over the world
to take courses online.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that blended learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can organizations
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
need for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This thrilling new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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