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.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
improvements in
online learning technology make it possible for
students
in every nation on earth
to take part in online courses.
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 massively open online courses are
almost always free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
technology-enhanced learning institutions
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality of these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
handle
poor
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
necessity
to gain more knowledge about how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
facts
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This thrilling new book
also discusses the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
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