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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
distance learning have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take courses online.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
manage problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
desideratum
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Academics
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
important new open education
initiatives.
Teachers want
to perceive how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To respond to this
growing
desire for
details
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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