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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
topics
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
New
developments in
online learning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
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.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning institutions
are having to deal with
now that elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can organizations
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Kingman Reef to conduct these MOOC courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
handle
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
endeavours.
Instructors want
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
increasing
need for
facts
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This interesting new book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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