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 this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
describes
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advances in
online learning technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
MOOCs are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
now that learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
certify that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
developing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better understand
these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Academics want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
growing
desideratum for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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