MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education is a
edited collection
which
describes
issues
pertaining to open
educational resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
gains in
e-learning are enabling
humans
in all parts of the world
to take online courses.
These online MOOC courses are
typically free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
e-learning technology institutions
are struggling with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
developing so fast.
How can teachers
be assured that
the quality of education provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can learners
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
to teach online courses?
What different strategies are being used by
organizations like
Solomon Islands to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can teachers
deal with the issues of
inadequate
motivation and high
learner dropout rates?
As e-learning becomes more
commonplace there is a
developing
need
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Educators
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
these
interesting new open educational
experiments.
Researchers want
to comprehend how
MOOC courses
can be improved.
In response to this
desire for
details
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This intriguing new book
also researches the
key controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources.
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