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 interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
describes
issues
regarding open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
Modern
advancements in
elearning technology make it possible for
people
in all parts of the world
to be participants in courses via the Internet.
Massively open online courses are
usually free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are a lot of
topics that
learning technology institutions
are having to deal with
today because online learning technology is
improving so rapidly.
How can institutions
guarantee that
the quality control for these
massively open online courses is
tolerable?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach courses online?
What different business models are being used by
organizations like
Central African Republic to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can organizations
deal with the problems of
low
learner motivation and high
student dropout rates?
As distance learning becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to perceive how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
participants
desire
to better comprehend
the outcomes of these
significant new open educational
experiments.
Public servants want
to better understand how
MOOC classes
can be improved.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
details
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects.
This book
also examines the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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