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.
Find out more about this significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
discusses
issues
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
The latest
gains in
online education are providing the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
subjects that
technology-enhanced learning organizations
are considering
in 2015 because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
the teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the issues of
low
student motivation and high
attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
demand
to be aware of how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
promising new open education
initiatives.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
crescive
need for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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