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 authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
articulates
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
elearning technology are enabling
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors.
These MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online education institutions
are dealing with
now that online learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of education provided by these
massive open online courses is
adequate?
How can participants
ensure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Mongolia to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
poor
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As digital learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
demand
to perceive how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Academics want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
demand for
knowledge
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open educational issues.
This scholarly new book
also examines the
major controversies associated with
these massively open online courses and OERS.
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