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 this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
that
articulates
topics
relevant to open
education resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Recent
gains in
digital education technology are making it possible for
people
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
usually free
for students but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are many
issues that
online education organizations
have to deal with
in 2015 because online education technology is
improving so quickly.
How can teachers
be assured that
the teaching provided by these
MOOCs is
adequate?
How can students
make sure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online classes?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can stakeholders
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As technology-enhanced learning becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
participants
need
to be more aware of
these
new open educational
experiments.
Everyone wants
to better understand how
these massively open online courses
can be improved.
To meet this
need for
knowledge
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This book
also analyzes the
major controversies associated with
these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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