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 the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online learning technology are providing the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to take courses online.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
now that online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can teachers
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Lecturers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
desire for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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