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.
Learn more about this appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
explores
subjects
regarding open
educational resources
(OER) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
New
advances in
electronic education technology have provided the means for
humans
in all parts of the world
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
These massive online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
online learning technology organizations
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the training provided by these
massively open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Clipperton Island to conduct these massively open online courses?
What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today?
How can institutions
get a handle on
inadequate
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
procurable there is a
increasing
desire
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Instructors
and many other
participants
want
to gain more knowledge about
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
undertakings.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be made better.
In response to this
growing
desire for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics.
This book
also discusses the
key controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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