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 fine new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
developments in
elearning are providing the means for
students
in nations all aver the world
to be participants in online classes.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
MOOCs are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
subjects that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so fast.
How can stakeholders
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOCs is
passable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
widespread there is a
developing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and many other
participants
desire
to better perceive
these
open education
experiments.
People want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
facts
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also addresses the
major controversies associated with
MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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