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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
having to do with open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advancements in
online education technology have empowered
people
in nations all aver the world
to participate in online courses.
These massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
topics that
distance learning organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
passable?
How can institutions
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
necessity
to better understand how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
exciting new open educational
experiments.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
demand for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also analyzes the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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