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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
advances in
e-learning are providing the means for
people
all over the world
to take part in courses online.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These online MOOCs are
typically free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Romania to conduct these MOOC courses?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can educators
handle issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
demand for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also talks about the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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