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 the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
blended learning technology enable
people
all around the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOCs are
almost always free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can organizations
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Angola to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
these
promising new open education
ventures.
People want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be enhanced.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also talks about the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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