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 is a
book
which
articulates
issues
having to do with open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
gains in
online learning technology are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to take classes via the Internet.
MOOC classes are
customarily free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
distance learning institutions
have to struggle with
now that online education technology is
advancing so swiftly.
How can stakeholders
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can stakeholders
certify that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online classes?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
learner attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
need
to better understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
participants
would like
to better perceive
these
open educational
undertakings.
Researchers want
to gain an understanding of how
MOOC courses
can be made better.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects.
This inspiring new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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