MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
researches
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology are providing the means for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes online.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
must deal with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Kenya to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC classes
can be enhanced.
To respond to this
developing
desire for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This dramatic new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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