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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
articulates
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
advancements in
e-learning technology enable
people
in nations all around the world
to participate in classes online.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOCs are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are quite a few
topics that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to struggle with
now that technology-enhanced learning is
developing so quickly.
How can educators
guarantee that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can institutions
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As online learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
necessity
to be aware of how
these MOOCs are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
intriguing new open educational
experiments.
Universities want
to understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
increasing
desideratum for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This gripping new book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs).
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