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 scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
addresses
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
electronic educational technology have enabled
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
MOOC courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
subjects that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to attend to
today because elearning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can participants
assure that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
dropout rates?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
desire
to be aware of how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Teachers
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Scholars want
to perceive how
massive open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects.
This stimulating new book
also deals with the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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