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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
online education have provided the means for
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in online courses.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to consider
more than ever because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
be assured that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better understand
these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to comprehend how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This sensational new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
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