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
investigates
topics
pertaining to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Brand new
advancements in
blended learning technology have provided the means for
people
all over the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
distance learning institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because distance learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOC classes?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Guam to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
manage issues like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As electronic educational technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desire
to be aware of how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and many other
stakeholders
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain more knowledge about how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
growing
need for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education subjects.
This intriguing new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open education resources.
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