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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
researches
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
digital education technology have provided the means for
students
in nations all around the world
to be participants in classes online.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education institutions
have to deal with
more than ever because e-learning technology is
improving so fast.
How can we
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
passable?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can stakeholders
get a handle on
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As online learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to gain a better understanding of how
these massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open educational
endeavours.
Corporations want
to understand how
these MOOC classes
can be made better.
To handle this
expanding
need for
facts
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects.
This interesting new book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open educational resources.
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