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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
studies
topics
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
New
improvements in
online education technology enable
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These massive open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can organizations
make sure that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can learners
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Students
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
undertakings.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
desideratum for
information
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This authoritative new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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