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 the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
discusses
subjects
related to open
education resources
and
massively open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
evolvements in
learning technology are empowering
people
in nations all aver the world
to take online classes.
MOOCs are
ordinarily free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are numerous
issues that
online learning organizations
are having to deal with
today because elearning technology is
improving so fast.
How can educators
assure that
the quality of schooling provided by these
MOOC courses is
decent?
How can students
assure that
teachers are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online courses?
What business strategies are being used by
organizations like
Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses?
What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal?
How can we
deal with the issues of
poor
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
procurable there is a
expanding
desideratum
to gain a better understanding of how
massively open online courses are being conducted.
Public servants
and many other
stakeholders
would like
to gain a better understanding of
these
important new open educational
initiatives.
Teachers want
to perceive how
MOOCs
can be made better.
To satisfy this
desideratum for
facts
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues.
This gripping new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
MOOCs and open education resources (OERS).
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