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
edited collection
which
reviews
subjects
pertaining to open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses.
Modern
developments in
blended learning technology are making it possible for
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses via the Internet.
MOOC courses are
mostly free
for learners but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are many
issues that
elearning organizations
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
adequate?
How can students
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Peru to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can institutions
handle problems like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
desire
to better understand how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Universities
and numerous other
stakeholders
need
to understand
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open education
endeavours.
Corporations want
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects.
This definitive new book
also explores the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and OERS.
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