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 engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
discusses
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
distance learning technology have enabled
students
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOC classes are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
elearning institutions
are having to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Moldova to conduct these MOOC classes?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
necessity
to be aware of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
important new open education
endeavours.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desire for
information
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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