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.
Find out more about this cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
These online MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
topics that
distance learning organizations
have to consider
more than ever because online learning technology is
developing so quickly.
How can organizations
assure that
the instruction provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
initiatives.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources.
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