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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
advances in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in online classes.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning.
MOOCs are
free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are dealing with
in 2015 because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coral Sea Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
growing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Everyone wants
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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