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 book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
digital education technology have enabled
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in online classes.
These online MOOCs are
almost always free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education organizations
are having to consider
more than ever because learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
massive open online courses is
respectable?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
France to conduct these massively open online courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desire
to perceive how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
participants
desire
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
knowledge
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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