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.
Find out more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
articulates
issues
relevant to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses.
Brand new
improvements in
digital education technology have provided the means for
humans
all over the world
to participate in classes via the Internet.
These online MOOCs are
commonly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a variety of
issues that
elearning organizations
have to struggle with
in 2015 because online education technology is
developing so swiftly.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality control for these
MOOC courses is
tolerable?
How can students
certify that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOC classes?
What strategies are being used by
institutions like
Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal?
How can educators
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As elearning becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
necessity
to grasp how
these MOOC courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
stakeholders
desire
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
compelling new open educational
experiments.
Professors want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
In response to this
expanding
desire for
data
the scholarly new book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these massive open courses and other open educational issues.
This book
also articulates the
most important controversies associated with
massive open online courses and open education resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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