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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
describes
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
changes in
online learning technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
These online MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning institutions
are having to attend to
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can educators
be assured that
the instruction provided by these
MOOCs is
satisfactory?
How can organizations
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
student attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
growing
desideratum
to comprehend how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and lots of other
participants
desire
to understand
these
promising new open education
experiments.
Teachers want
to perceive how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
increasing
desideratum for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education resource issues.
This authoritative new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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