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.
Learn more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
distance learning technology are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
blended learning institutions
have to consider
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Armenia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As online learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to be more aware of
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Educators want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
details
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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