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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
addresses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
improvements in
distance learning are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These massively open online courses are
generally free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are numerous
topics that
elearning organizations
have to deal with
today because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can students
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
France to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
exciting new open educational
ventures.
Intellectuals want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This exciting new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
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