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 informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
that
examines
issues
pertaining to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses.
New
gains in
online education technology are providing the means for
humans
in every nation on earth
to participate in online courses.
MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners.
These MOOC courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
topics that
online learning technology institutions
have to consider
now that online learning technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can organizations
assure that
the quality of these
MOOCs is
decent?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Faroe Islands to conduct these massive open online courses?
What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
available there is a
developing
need
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
would like
to better understand
these
interesting new open education
endeavours.
Instructors want
to gain more knowledge about how
MOOCs
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
need for
facts
the sensational new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open education topics.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
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