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.
Find out more about this fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
deals with
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
e-learning are enabling
learners
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes.
These massive open courses are
usually free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
topics that
online learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can stakeholders
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
manage
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to be aware of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Intellectuals
and numerous other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
demand for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC courses and other open education resource issues.
This definitive new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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