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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
evolvements in
learning technology are making it possible for
people
all over the world
to take classes online.
These massive online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning organizations
have to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can organizations
certify that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
handle issues like
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As learning technology becomes more
widespread there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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