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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
addresses
topics
regarding open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
improvements in
elearning are providing the means for
students
in nations all aver the world
to take part in online courses.
These MOOC classes are
usually free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online learning technology institutions
have to struggle with
more than ever because online education technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can organizations
be assured that
the quality control for these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can stakeholders
guarantee that
educators are properly credentialed
to teach online?
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
abundant there is a
growing
need
to grasp how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and lots of other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
interesting new open education
experiments.
Scholars want
to better understand how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
knowledge
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOCs and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
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