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 definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
deals with
topics
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advances in
electronic education technology have made it possible for
people
all over the world
to be participants in online courses.
MOOCs are
generally free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
blended learning organizations
are having to attend to
now that elearning technology is
improving so quickly.
How can stakeholders
certify that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
all right?
How can stakeholders
be assured that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified for online teaching?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
handle problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
student attrition?
As online learning becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Instructors
and numerous other
participants
need
to better understand
the outcomes of these
important new open educational
endeavours.
Lecturers want
to know how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
developing
demand for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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