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
book
that
discusses
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
distance learning have enabled
humans
all around the world
to be participants in online classes.
MOOC courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
online education institutions
are struggling with
now that elearning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can teachers
guarantee that
the instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
passable?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
for teaching online?
What strategies are being used by
organizations like
edX to conduct these MOOC courses?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
available there is a
developing
necessity
to grasp how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and many other
participants
desire
to understand
these
new open education
endeavours.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desire for
data
the inspiring new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER).
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