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 impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
analyzes
subjects
regarding open
education resources
(OER) and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
New
gains in
learning technology are providing the means for
people
all around the world
to be participants in online courses.
These massive online courses are
mostly free
for students but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
There are several
topics that
e-learning institutions
must deal with
today because online education technology is
developing so quickly.
How can educators
certify that
the quality of instruction provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can learners
guarantee that
lecturers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Luxembourg to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today?
How can we
deal with the problems of
inadequate
motivation and high
dropout rates?
As blended learning technology becomes more
commonplace there is a
increasing
necessity
to better understand how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
stakeholders
want
to be more aware of
the outcomes of these
promising new open educational
experiments.
Educators want
to understand how
these MOOC courses
can be enhanced.
To meet this
need for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education issues.
This scholarly new book
also studies the
most important controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open education resources.
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