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.
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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
considers
issues
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Recent
improvements in
learning technology are enabling
humans
all around the world
to take part in online courses.
MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students.
Massive open online courses are
ordinarily free
for students but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to struggle with
in 2015 because e-learning technology is
advancing so fast.
How can institutions
certify that
the teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
tolerable?
How can institutions
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
to teach massive open online courses?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can educators
manage
inadequate
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As electronic education technology becomes more
prolific there is a
increasing
need
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Trainers
and lots of other
stakeholders
want
to better grasp
the outcomes of these
intriguing new open educational
ventures.
Academics want
to grasp how
massively open online courses
can be enhanced.
To satisfy this
crescive
demand for
data
the amazing new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues.
This definitive new book
also considers the
controversies associated with
these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER).
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