MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
deals with
topics
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
blended learning have made it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
blended learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle
poor
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
growing
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To handle this
developing
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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