MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
reviews
subjects
having to do with open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
improvements in
e-learning are enabling
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in courses online.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
subjects that
e-learning organizations
have to consider
today because online learning technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the education provided by these
massively open online courses is
respectable?
How can institutions
be assured that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massively open online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Australia to conduct these MOOC classes?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can educators
manage issues like
poor
learner motivation and high
learner attrition?
As learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
expanding
need
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs.
Students
and numerous other
participants
would like
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to know how
MOOC classes
can be made better.
To meet this
growing
desideratum for
facts
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational topics.
This inspiring new book
also discusses the
most important controversies associated with
these massive online courses and OERS.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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