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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
considers
subjects
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
changes in
electronic educational technology are enabling
humans
all over the world
to take courses online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These MOOC classes are
customarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
distance learning organizations
must deal with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
certify that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can we
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
stakeholders
want
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Instructors want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
increasing
desire for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational issues.
This thrilling new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources.
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