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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
considers
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
The latest
evolvements in
elearning have empowered
people
all around the world
to take classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOCs are
typically free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
blended learning institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
MOOC classes is
acceptable?
How can institutions
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle problems like
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As e-learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
compelling new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
increasing
desire for
data
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also talks about the
key controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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