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 Around the World is a
book
which
analyzes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
elearning technology are providing the means for
students
in all parts of the world
to take online classes.
These MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
elearning institutions
are struggling with
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can we
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Montserrat to conduct these MOOC courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
promising new open education
undertakings.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This definitive new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
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