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
that
discusses
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Modern
advancements in
elearning are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning institutions
are struggling with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
low
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
need
to gain a better understanding of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
endeavours.
Trainers want
to perceive how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
crescive
desire for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational issues.
This book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
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