MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
electronic education technology are making it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to consider
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
good?
MOOCs are a form of distance education.
How can organizations
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Australia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
participants
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
need for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS).
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