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 the informative new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
talks about
topics
relating to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
gains in
technology-enhanced learning are enabling
people
in nations all around the world
to take part in classes online.
These massive open online courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are quite a few
issues that
online education organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can educators
ensure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
respectable?
How can learners
make sure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach MOOCs?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Coursera to conduct these MOOCs?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As digital e-learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
desire
to comprehend how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Teachers
and lots of other
stakeholders
desire
to better understand
these
new open educational
ventures.
Teachers want
to gain an understanding of how
these MOOCs
can be made better.
To respond to this
desire for
data
the definitive new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues.
This amazing new book
also discusses the
controversies associated with
these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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