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 appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
subjects
relating to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
advances in
digital education technology have provided the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive open online courses are
commonly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online learning institutions
have to deal with
now that online learning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can learners
ensure that
instructors are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Micronesia to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with the problems of
poor
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
desideratum
to perceive how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Lecturers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
expanding
need for
information
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOCs and other open educational topics.
This gripping new book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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