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 the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
investigates
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
typically free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Students want
to grasp how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To meet this
expanding
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This scholarly new book
also analyzes the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources.
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