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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
addresses
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses.
Modern
changes in
online education technology have provided the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
today because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
be assured that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
growing
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to understand how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational topics.
This new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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