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
that
considers
topics
related to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
evolvements in
e-learning have provided the means for
people
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online education institutions
are having to consider
in 2015 because elearning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the education provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can we
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can we
deal with
inadequate
motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Students
and many other
stakeholders
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To handle this
expanding
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This sensational new book
also deals with the
key controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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