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 this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
reviews
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
improvements in
learning technology have made it possible for
people
all around the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOCs are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Niger to conduct these massive open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
demand
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
People want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
growing
need for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
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