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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
reviews
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
gains in
distance learning make it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in classes online.
These massive open courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because distance learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can students
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
these
promising new open educational
endeavours.
Professors want
to comprehend how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
facts
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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