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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
examines
issues
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
New
evolvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
learners
in all parts of the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These massive open courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are considering
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can educators
be assured that
the quality of training provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can institutions
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
need
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education subjects.
This interesting new book
also describes the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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