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 the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
reviews
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
technology-enhanced learning have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
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.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
now that online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the training provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
How can we
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Kazakhstan to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
widespread there is a
increasing
desideratum
to understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
ventures.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
details
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education issues.
This definitive new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
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