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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
subjects
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
evolvements in
online education are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to participate in online classes.
Massively open online courses are
normally free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so fast.
How can organizations
assure that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can students
guarantee that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOCs?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
handle issues like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scientists
and numerous other
participants
want
to better perceive
these
promising new open educational
initiatives.
Trainers want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
data
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also examines the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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