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 the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
which
deals with
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
e-learning technology are providing the means for
humans
all over the world
to be participants in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
Massively open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
subjects that
e-learning technology organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can participants
certify that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
all right?
How can learners
ensure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach classes online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Honduras to conduct these MOOC classes?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the problems of
low
student motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
demand
to gain a better understanding of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
In response to this
expanding
desideratum for
knowledge
the stimulating new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This stimulating new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS).
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