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 interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
describes
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
advances in
online education are empowering
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes online.
These massive online courses are
free
for learners but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
topics that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
now that e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
assure that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
good?
How can participants
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
handle issues like
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
demand
to comprehend how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Lecturers
and many other
stakeholders
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To handle this
growing
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also describes the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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