MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
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
addresses
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
New
gains in
digital education technology have empowered
people
in all parts of the world
to participate in courses via the Internet.
These online MOOC courses are
commonly free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are a variety of
subjects that
online education institutions
have to struggle with
now that online education technology is
developing so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC classes is
passable?
How can we
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
handle
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to comprehend how
massive open online courses are being conducted.
Academics
and numerous other
participants
would like
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
important new open education
ventures.
Everyone wants
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
crescive
desideratum for
data
the intriguing new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education issues.
This intriguing new book
also reviews the
major controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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