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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
elearning have enabled
people
all around the world
to take part in courses online.
MOOC courses are
free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
e-learning organizations
are having to consider
now that technology-enhanced learning is
developing so fast.
How can institutions
assure that
the education provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can institutions
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning becomes more
available there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to know how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
growing
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also analyzes the
most important controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
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