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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
studies
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
electronic educational technology have made it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
These online MOOC courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
distance learning institutions
are dealing with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality control for these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can we
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can organizations
handle
low
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
demand
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
stakeholders
would like
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Students want
to comprehend how
massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also researches the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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