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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
researches
issues
having to do with open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
developments in
distance learning technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to take classes online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online education institutions
are having to attend to
more than ever because elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC courses is
satisfactory?
How can institutions
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today?
How can educators
handle
inadequate
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
available there is a
developing
demand
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open education
endeavours.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
In response to this
developing
need for
information
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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