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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
studies
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
advances in
online education technology have made it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
today because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can we
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
tolerable?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
necessity
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and lots of other
participants
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to grasp how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
In response to this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources.
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