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
which
discusses
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
developments in
distance learning technology are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
now that distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
manage problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
necessity
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
would like
to understand
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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