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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
talks about
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
developments in
blended learning have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning.
There are quite a few
subjects that
elearning technology organizations
must deal with
in 2015 because elearning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
make sure that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can learners
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
handle
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
necessity
to comprehend how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Corporations
and many other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Everybody wants
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC courses
can be improved.
To respond to this
developing
demand for
information
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open education topics.
This stimulating new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER).
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