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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
online learning technology make it possible for
students
in nations all around the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
commonly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of these
massive open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to grasp how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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