MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge (2015).
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
online learning technology have empowered
learners
in all parts of the world
to participate in online classes.
These massive online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
must deal with
more than ever because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
available there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
experiments.
Everybody wants
to perceive how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
demand for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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