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.
Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
book
that
examines
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
digital education technology are enabling
learners
all around the world
to participate in online courses.
Massive open online courses are
almost always free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are numerous
subjects that
blended learning institutions
have to struggle with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so rapidly.
How can participants
guarantee that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
acceptable?
How can students
guarantee that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Korea, South to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today?
How can teachers
get a handle on
poor
motivation and high
student attrition?
As digital learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
desideratum
to grasp how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Professors
and many other
participants
want
to gain a better understanding of
the outcomes of these
fascinating new open educational
undertakings.
Researchers want
to grasp how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
To meet this
crescive
desideratum for
details
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also studies the
major controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OER).
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