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 fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
discusses
topics
relevant to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses.
New
gains in
learning technology have enabled
people
in every nation on earth
to be participants in online courses.
These massive online courses are
usually free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
distance learning institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the schooling provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can we
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Marshall Islands to conduct these MOOCs?
How can we
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
student dropout rates?
The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world.
As learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
need
to gain more knowledge about
these
exciting new open education
experiments.
Universities want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOC classes
can be improved.
To handle this
developing
demand for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open education subjects.
This authoritative new book
also deals with the
controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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