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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
subjects
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advances in
distance learning technology have enabled
students
all over the world
to take online classes.
MOOCs are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can participants
be assured that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can participants
manage
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Scholars
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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