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 new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
examines
subjects
relevant to open
education resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Recent
evolvements in
e-learning have made it possible for
people
in nations all aver the world
to take online classes.
These massive online courses are
customarily free
but do not
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online education organizations
are having to deal with
in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is
advancing so rapidly.
How can institutions
certify that
the quality of teaching provided by these
MOOC classes is
respectable?
How can we
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach MOOCs?
What business models are being used by
institutions like
edX to conduct these massively open online courses?
How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained?
What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can participants
handle problems like
low
student motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning becomes more
prolific there is a
expanding
desire
to understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Universities
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to better perceive
these
exciting new open education
ventures.
Researchers want
to know how
massively open online courses
can be improved.
To handle this
expanding
desideratum for
data
the dramatic new book
MOOCs and Open Education
offers a critical analysis of
massively open online courses and other open educational subjects.
This interesting new book
also considers the
major controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open education resources (OER).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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