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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
e-learning enable
students
all around the world
to take classes online.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are considering
more than ever because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
good?
How can organizations
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these MOOCs?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
desideratum for
information
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This scholarly new book
also describes the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
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