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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
advancements in
online education technology are empowering
people
all around the world
to participate in online classes.
These MOOC courses are
generally free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments.
There are quite a few
topics that
elearning technology institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
assure that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
all right?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Canada to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
poor
motivation and high
attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Teachers want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
developing
demand for
information
the thrilling new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This stimulating new book
also describes the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources (OER).
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