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 the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
e-learning have made it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
online learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can learners
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
handle
low
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to grasp how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
desire for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education subjects.
This dramatic new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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