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
talks about
subjects
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
developments in
distance learning technology are making it possible for
people
in every nation on earth
to take part in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
blended learning organizations
are dealing with
today because online learning technology is
improving so swiftly.
How can we
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massive open online courses is
good?
How can students
make sure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coral Sea Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
developing
desire
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
desire
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Instructors want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
increasing
desideratum for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive online courses and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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