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
considers
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
elearning are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in courses online.
MOOC courses are
free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
issues that
e-learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
decent?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
manage
low
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to better understand how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and lots of other
participants
would like
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Universities want
to grasp how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
developing
desideratum for
data
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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