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 this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
talks about
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
distance learning technology are enabling
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to deal with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
improving so rapidly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can institutions
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Benin to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
handle issues like
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
participants
desire
to better perceive
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
undertakings.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This gripping new book
also addresses the
key controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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