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
which
examines
topics
relating to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
The latest
evolvements in
online learning technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to participate in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
MOOC classes are
generally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
e-learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
massively open online courses is
decent?
How can learners
assure that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
United States to conduct these massively open online courses?
What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
manage
poor
learner motivation and high
dropout rates?
As distance learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
expanding
desideratum
to better understand how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to gain more knowledge about
these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Public servants want
to understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To respond to this
expanding
desideratum for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues.
This gripping new book
also considers the
key controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs).
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