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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
addresses
topics
regarding open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
Recent
gains in
online learning technology have empowered
people
in every nation on earth
to take online courses.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
distance learning organizations
are having to attend to
more than ever because online education technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can stakeholders
ensure that
the training provided by these
MOOCs is
respectable?
How can learners
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online MOOC courses?
What business models are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal?
How can organizations
manage problems like
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As online education becomes more
procurable there is a
developing
desire
to understand how
MOOC classes are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
need
to gain a better understanding of
these
promising new open educational
undertakings.
Scholars want
to gain an understanding of how
these massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
developing
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This scholarly new book
also investigates the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
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