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.
Learn more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
book
which
describes
issues
relating to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massively open online courses.
Brand new
gains in
electronic educational technology are making it possible for
humans
in every nation on earth
to be participants in classes via the Internet.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class.
These online MOOC courses are
customarily free
for learners but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
There are a lot of
issues that
online learning organizations
have to struggle with
today because online learning technology is
advancing so quickly.
How can participants
certify that
the quality of these
MOOC courses is
good?
How can organizations
assure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach online MOOC classes?
What different business strategies are being used by
organizations like
University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses?
What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today?
How can participants
deal with the problems of
poor
learner motivation and high
attrition?
As blended learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
demand
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Corporations
and numerous other
participants
want
to understand
the outcomes of these
important new open education
experiments.
Lecturers want
to grasp how
these MOOC courses
can be made better.
Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably.
To satisfy this
expanding
desire for
facts
the book
MOOCs and Open Education
provides a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics.
This book
also addresses the
most important controversies associated with
MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS).
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