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 impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
changes in
electronic educational technology have made it possible for
learners
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online education institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
British Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to perceive how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
these
significant new open education
undertakings.
Scholars want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
increasing
need for
details
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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