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 enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
online learning technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to take courses via the Internet.
These MOOC courses are
commonly free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning institutions
are dealing with
now that online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
satisfactory?
How can we
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
Aland to conduct these massive open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
desideratum
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Scholars
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
new open education
endeavours.
Corporations want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
growing
demand for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational topics.
This book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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