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 significant new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
considers
topics
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
developments in
elearning technology have empowered
students
in all parts of the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online education institutions
are having to struggle with
today because e-learning technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can institutions
assure that
the quality of training provided by these
MOOC classes is
all right?
How can stakeholders
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Canada to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
How can participants
deal with the issues of
inadequate
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As digital elearning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
developing
demand
to comprehend how
these MOOC classes are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
endeavours.
Public servants want
to know how
these MOOCs
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
data
the interesting new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open education resource topics.
This interesting new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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